In our project we use checkstyle as static analyzer (as maven plugin, I mean maven-checkstyle-plugin). I am new to this tool, and there is one thing I want to find out - what is the difference between failOnError and failOnViolation?
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I think the plugin documentation is pretty clear, but the minimum expectation is going to be:
- Do you want a log of the errors before failing the build? Then use
failOnViolation
Or
- Do you want to fail the build immediately, without waiting for errors to be logged? Then use
failsOnError
Of course, if you set logViolationsToConsole to false (or on the CLI as -Dcheckstyle.console=false), then both act almost identically and can cause some confusion.
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